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AGENCY: FBI
RECORD NUMBER: = 124-10212-10337

RECORD SERIES: HQ

_ AGENCY FILE NUMBER: —100-401762-2ND NR 35

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: CIA
FROM: CIA
TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE: 02/02/1960
PAGES: 5 ;

SUBJECTS :
RCF, SHF, EMP, BKG, TRA, CP ACT, ADMIN, INSTR
DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT
CLASSIFICATION : — Secret
RESTRICTIONS: — 1B; 1C; 4
. CURRENT STATUS: — Redact
DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 09/21/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: APPROVAL OF CIA, INDEFINITE

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ee is made to your letter dated February 25.
2960, conecernin: yorrtones indtoidualas your file
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of the data set out on page tuo of referenecd memorandum[to ‘.
[the Swies Federal. foligggntil net interfere with the intefligenc
aud investigatiee re: Ghilities of this Burecaw. The last

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sentence on page two OF the nemorantan Should be changed toe
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cenit Me 5 * pelteved te have wade fSinencial contributions te
DUPLICATE Vie Comumist Party in the 0.8., and there ta tnforsa-
rEBLt Nave te indicate Goummist Party menbereahip on hie

| MAILED. Bert aes lete az 1957.6.”

this matter hes beg ‘peferred to the Regal Attaches
(i Londons Ports, end Tokyo (go alert appropriote gecurdé?

| services OHCEP BING possibile travel of the Franke im Em gland,
France af # Japars

2- Wew York (100- 42479) (100-107383} (Hnelosuré)
\ 1 = Landon (&nclosures ~ 3) See note Legats, London, Paris,
1 - Paris (Enclosures - 3) /cRiome, and SAC, New York, page

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/ 1 - Tokyo (Enclosures ~ 3)
1 + Foreign Liaison Unit (Route through for review)
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(@entral Intell igenee Agency Kae (4 i
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_ . .  £é would be appreciated if your Agency would furnish
this Bureau any pertinent. information received coneerning —
possible travel of the subjects to Comnmiat Chins end concerning
thetr presence in China Should your Agency receive information
thet subjects plan to travel in England; France, or Japon, tt 4
would be apprectated iff you would edvige the appropriate Lega,
Attache in Londons Gngland; Partie, Frances or Tokye, Japate uw)

ALLTENT GAL .
SAC, JOY FORK?
A Photostat of referenced Central Intelligence Agency
(eIA) memorandum is enclosed for alls It is péessible that Paris
may receive inguiries regarding the subjects through Swiss sources.
in referenced memorandum CIA did not identify its (official Swiss S)
source, Lhis identification subsequently given to Bureau via.
Liaison. The Bureau approved ¢fA's furnishing this information
£6 the Swiss Hederal Police inasmuch as GIA had conducted active
investigation regarding subjects in Swi tzerlandyS )

Also enclosed for each Legal Attache are one copy of
| @ memorandum dated li-~26-58 concerming Richard. Cyril Prank and
one copy of a memorandum dated 1-26-60 concerning Susan Heili gman
Pranks In view of reported plans of subjects to travel in :
angland and Frances and since it is anticipated that they may ~
travel in thé vicinity ef Japan priser te their return te this
gountry, the Legal Attaches. at Londons Paris, and Fokye should
ulert’ sourceg)in England, France, and Japan cencerning the
franks’ contetlated travel in Hurope and thety possible plans
to. travel .in China. [Background information concerning the
‘subjects, set forth of page two of enclosed OFA pletters ‘as
(fe your a peragraph two of this letter he made available
rigeg

[€o. your sourceahi? deemed advisable, FoF your additional
information, both subjects are on the Security Index.

Ss New York remain alert in this matter and submit any

information received concerning the subjects in a form suitable
for dissemination. If not already done, New York submit FO-122's
tabbed "Out of the country”

SECREL
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TOs ; Director ‘
Federal Bureau of Investigation _
Attention: Mr. &. J. Papich GA HAS NO ORIECTION
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tae ris OiNEeL Bro E12 4)
SUBJECT: Susan and Richard frank IN THiS Lutzateiel. gem (0-6-9 |
— Extep7 Gunes i fasy”
WRITIEN NOoTANCA
i. In response to your 22 December commmication ah Wf
(Pile No: 100339235, 100-401762) we wish to inform you jt ,
that we have received the folloving from an official — b-/ 6-9 g
Swiss sources : ° ( Tf a ,)

"Richard Frank (born 1922), U.8. citizen, film

technician, resident of New York, arrived at the

Hotel Savoy in Bern with hie wife Susan on 10 December
1959; they stayed there until 12 December leaving for
Zurich. Frank inquired for @ flight ticket to Prague
from Zurich. While in Bern, Frank had contact with
the Chinese, Commnist Exbassy on two occasions; he or -
Mes. Frank having called at the Eubessy. No information
is available on. the neture of these contacts, nor do we
have more detailed personalia."

N CONTAINED

@. We have observed that persons desiring to travel te. .
Commmist China from Gvitzerland frequently fly vie Prague.

3. The following summary has been drawn from material
which you have provided us on Subjects (see HY 100-42h79,
QY 1OO-107383 and Bureau 100-339235). Please advise if we
may pass this summary to our Swiss. source, but without
revealing that your organization supplied the information
contained in it:

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